Death Duel of Kung Fu

Death Duel of Kung Fu (1979)

形手螳螂腿

Ming General Cheng (Wang Dao) and his band of soldiers escape to Taiwan after Ching forces topple the Ming Dynasty. Still fearing the deposed general's deadly potential, however, the Ching prince Ta orders his own band of ruthless mercenaries to finish off Cheng and his warriors. The rivals prove to be equally skilled, and soon everybody is kung fu-fighting in this action-heavy martial arts spectacular.

Date of release
1979-12-31
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 27m
Genres
Action, Drama
Director
William Chang Kee

Casting

Interesting facts

Death Duel of Kung Fu is 1979 Hong Kong martial art movie, directed by William Cheung Ki and starring John Liu, Don Wong Tao and Eagle Han-ying. It is also known as Showdown of the Master Warriors and Return of the Secret Rivals as an alternate title. With in say, the movie has no relationship with the Secret Rivals trilogy but most of the filming locations took places in South Korea although the story is set in China, which makes the result that it makes a similar storyline as Secret Rivals. It is also Eagle Han-ying`s first Hong Kong movie debut.

Production and impact

The movie was filmed in South Korea. Some of the locations took from the same location from the Secret Rivals. Once again Don Wong and John Liu teamed up together, except this time the villain was replaced to Eagle Han-ying instead of Hwang Jang Lee.

The success of the movie will later give him more villain roles in Kim Jeong Young`s movies. Nevertheless, this was John Liu`s last Korean and Hong Kong production film and will later working on Hong Kong industry. Don Wong however will later team up with Eagle Han several times again in films such as lost film Quick Step Mantis and Wild Panther (1984).

Some of the film's stunt performers from Sammo Hung's stunt team, served as a choreographer and stunt doubles for this film, including Chung Fat, Chin Yuet Sang, and Mang Hoi whom served as a main stunt co-ordinator and stun-double for John Liu.

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